My Laptop will be 15 years old this year.

It was running Vista when I bought it, then upgraded to Win 7, and now runs whatever flavor of Linux I feel like installing.

Battery is shot. Screen connection is iffy, but works if you wiggle it. Several keys stopped working after I accidentally threw up on it, but I can use an onscreen keyboard for those.

Still runs fine. She's a trooper.

Next month is my desktops CPU model's 10th birthmonth. Still my default computer.

You feel sorry for ze little old computer. Zis is because you crazy. It is just a machine; it has no feelings.

It is working just as well as it was 10 years ago and capable of all the same things now as it was back then. Nothing has changed except your expectations of it. That's right, there's nothing wrong with it -- in reality, you're the problem.

You monster.

my 13 years old laptop works good as server. Sometimes he fell asleep when I watch a movie with Jellyfin but it's okey.

My 2012 desktop PC died the other day.

I took out all her parts and determined that the fault was with the power supply and with a wonky pci shield on the wifi card. Replaced the psu and straighten the shield with pliers, reapply thermal compound for fun, and bam, shes back.

Its an i73770k lga1155 socket, with 16g DDR3 RAM. They dont make lga1155 sockets anymore, or DDR3 ram, so I would have been out $1600 to replace the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.

But now, she might have another 5 years in her yet. Im determined to keep her around until she's old enough to vote at least.

At least for me, both my laptop (daily driver) and desktop would be considered old by this comic (2014 and 2017 respectively). Neither of them are struggling with the tasks I mostly use them for (writing notes, programming, light gaming on my desktop).

The only things they are struggling at, are modern video codecs and the ABSOLUTELY BLOATED shitshow that is today's Internet experience.

Windows Laptop: "Sure, no problem, just let me install all these updates first. Why don't you go ahead and create a Microsoft account?"

look at the laptop, he's so happy.

Just enjoying the tunes, and the light workload, content as can be.

At least he looks like he's enjoying making music =)

With an SSD and enough RAM, I think old machines are more than capable for most basic task

Ten year old laptop is 2013 (this post seems to be from 2023). That's really not old at all. I use a 17 year old machine and it works great for basic tasks.

Thinkpad X230 of my dad still going strong with xfce.

I have a 14 year old laptop that runs like a top with debian 12 on it.

My Mac mini serving as a movie server for nine years after retirement. If the movie starts stuttering back out and go back in, works every time.

Pfft, I make music with my ten year old laptop.

I recently resurrected an old desktop computer (linux is great for ding this) I had built in 2009. I upgraded the ram to ~~8Gb~~ 16Gb, replaced the broken graphics card and installed Gnu Guix using the system crafters install guide. I'm not doing any hardcore gaming so it does everything I need it to do. I have a raid store, jellyfin server, and samba share.

My notebook is 8 years old. It was a gaming beast when I got it, now it's not great on most modern releases(1060). It still works really good to be honest, I just stopped using once I got a good desktop computer.

My Thinkpad would laugh at this

:( he looks so sad

• If it isn't hp, it can work for 20 years, but with hp laptops, you are lucky if it lasts for 8.
• Btw, it works for phones too. I got my dad's redmi 4x from 2017 a month ago. It works suprisingly ok. I am planning to flash lineageos without gapps on it, to not have to use android 7. It should work for another couple of years.

For MacBooks, 10 years is barely broken in. I’ve had MacBook Airs as daily drivers for well over 10 years.

I have an old lightweight laptop that I use for youtube videos from time to time.

Page loads take 3-10 seconds. Video decoding, once it gets going, is great due to dedicated MPEG hardware. But the site itself - well, old man gets there eventually.

Edit: already stripped overhead to the bone by running Bodhi Linux. I may try FF over Chromium in case there's more performance to be had. But the 2GB RAM footprint is really pushing it these days.

I have a ThinkPad X220 that recently turned 13, with SSD and RAM upgrades, basic maintenance, and Linux it’s still running great for plenty of tasks.

Plus it’s so well built I could probably stick it in a plate carrier and use it as body armour. Doesn’t seem to matter how much it gets dropped or dropped onto, ol’ Thinky keeps on chugging.

I remember one of my first machines, a 486DX50 I think, really had a hard time playing mp3 files. But it hasn't been an issue for anything that came later.